As law firms look to replace a significant portion of associate pay with discretionary bonuses, star associates may profit but others will lose ground financially, predicts the Aug 6, 2010 5:10 PM CDT
A basic principle law students are taught in first-year torts class is that defendants who happen to injure a fragile plaintiff can’t point to the victim’s weakness to excuse their…
An increasing number of criminals are mutilating their fingerprints in an effort to avoid detection, despite the pain caused by acid or burning metal used to create scarring.
A federal judge in Boston today struck down the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act, saying that the 1996 statute’s prohibition against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
After a biology professor at the University of Alabama was charged with shooting three colleagues to death and wounding three more at a faculty meeting in February, questions were raised…
The man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 may also have tried to put a contract out on his younger brother, Sen. Ted Kennedy, in 1977.
A Delaware man who allegedly was admitted to Harvard University and won nearly $50,000 in scholarships and prizes as an English major there based on lies and plagiarism had been…
The number of would-be students seeking admission to the new University of Massachusetts School of Law is about double the number who applied last year before the school’s new incarnation.
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